Self-narration as a “Social Action” in the Works of the Sino-Italian Author Hu Lanbo

In this paper I analyze three of the four autobiographical volumes written by Hu Lanbo, who has rewritten and published her story four times in four different periods of her life, publishing twice in China and twice in Italy. As discussed below, these works can be considered as autobiographical novels, more than simple autobiographical accounts, as, in them, the author fabricates the character “Hu Lanbo” to serve as the protagonist of a sequence of exemplary tales, in which much space is dedicated to moral lessons learned throughout the character’s many life adventures, as well as to the preaching of such lessons.